Peas, Pisum sativum, has many culinary uses. Eaten as snow peas, sugar snaps, boiled to soup, in stews or pots or ground to flour, endless possibilities! Snow Peas has edible pods, you eat the whole pod with the seeds inside, while still unripe. Snow Peas has flat pods with thin walls and are eaten either fresh or cooked. Sugar Snap Peas are also eaten like Snow Peas but have rounded pods and thick walls. Grey peas have many uses, flour, soups, and other dishes. Marrowfat Peas are mature peas eaten either fresh or stored as dried peas. There are also yellow and green peas used for pea soup.
Örshult Marrowfat Pea flowers with white flowers. Produces green, short, and chubby pods. Sturdy, high plants that need support. Has traditionally been farmed by three generations of women from the beginning of the 1900-hundreds. Was eaten with pickled herring for breakfast. From Örshult, Småland, Sweden. 10seeds/pack
Östgöta Märgärt is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 160-180cm high and needs support. Produces short and thick pods with large, slightly flattened seeds. Very good flavor. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. From Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Pole Pea from Anten Alingsås, ”Störärt från Anten/Alingsås”, is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 150-200cm, and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces green pods with large, green peas. From Alingsås, Sweden. 10seeds/pack
Puggor från Ballingslöv-Glimåkra is a grey pea that grows to around 160-180cm high and needs support. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Shorter, slightly angular pods. Large and slightly dented peas in a yellow-brown, slightly red color. Use as a marrowfat pea. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Rättviksärt Grey Pea grows to about 100cm in height and needs support, quite weak, but busy, growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Produces green, small pods with small, dark speckled seeds. Was traditionally grown for animal feed, or ground to flour for porridge or bread. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 17879. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Rustica is a soup pea that grows to around 150cm high and needs support. Flowers with dark and light purple flowers. Produces green pods with green peas. Good produce. Early. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Saxbo Marrowfat Pea flowers with white flowers. Produces green pods with green peas. High, grows to more than 200cm, and needs support. Quite sturdy. Heavy yielder, long harvest period. From Dalarna, Sweden. 10seeds/pack
Shiraz Snow Pea grows to about 100cm in height and needs support, strong, bushy, growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Produces purple, mid-sized pods, crispy and sweet. Harvest early, immature, young pods are the best. Eat fresh, or boil slightly. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Solberga Grey Pea grows to about 175-200cm in height and needs support, strong growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Heavy yielder of green, mid-sized, chubby pods. The peas can be eaten fresh, like green peas. Or stored as dried peas for later use. Has been grown at the same farm since 1600. Was traditionally grown together with the broad bean 'Solberga', which was acting as support for the peas. From Solberga, Bohuslän, Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 14153. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Sollerö Grey Pea grows to about 200cm in height and needs support, strong growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Heavy yielder of green, mid-sized, chubby pods. The peas can be eaten fresh, like green peas. Or stored as dried peas for later use. Mild flavor, good to use for bread, pea-beefs etc. From Dalarna, Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 17859. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Sörmländsk Bönärt Grey Pea grows to about 150cm in height and needs support. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Produces green pods, large green-brown seeds with a black spot. Slightly rough flavor. From Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB14640. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Stäme Grey Pea grows to only about 60cm in height and needs little support, strong growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Heavy yielder of green, mid-sized, chubby pods with 5-6 seeds in each pod. The peas can be eaten fresh, like green peas. Or stored as dried peas for later use. Large, yellow-mottled, angular seeds. From Halland, Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 13469. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Sugar Ann is a sugar snap pea that grows to around 100cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Chubby, green pods with a sweet and crispy flavor. More mature pods have a sweeter taste. Early. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Sugar Snap Pea grows to only about 100-120cm in height and needs support, strong growth. Flowers with white flowers. Heavy yielder of green, mid-sized, chubby pods. Very crispy and sweet, around 8cm long pods. Pisum sativum. 20seeds/pack
Svalöfs Concordia is a soup pea from the beginning of the 1900-hundreds. Grows to around 150cm and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces green pods with light green seeds. Midseason to late. 10seeds/pack
Svalöfs Torsdagsärt, “Svaloefs Thusday Pea” is a traditional pea for soups. Grows up to about 150cm and needs support. Produces straight, short pods with smaller yellow peas. Thursday is the day in the week when Swedes traditionally ate pea soup and pork for dinner. Derives from the varieties ‘Kapitalärt’ and Östgöta Gulärt’. Old variety from Sweden, from 1925. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Svalövs Belloärt is a grey pea that grows to around 100cm high and needs support. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Slightly shorter, green pods with brown seeds. From a cross between ‘Hero’ and ‘Artturi’ in 1956. Was traditionally used for animal feed. Use as shelling pea, soup pea, or in pots and stews. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Svartbjörsbyn Snow Pea grows to about 150cm in height and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces shorter, green, crispy pods. Harvest when they start to swell. Works well to freeze. Old variety, from 1875. From the village of Svartbjörsbyn in Boden, Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 17837. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Swedish Snow Pea is a medium-high variety of snow pea. Heavy yielder of sturdy, greens pods with large oval peas. Not too sweet. Emigrant variety from Swedes living in Maine, USA. From Seeds Savers Exchange. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Tant Erika is a snow pea that grows to around 150-170cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces green, thin pods with a sweet and crispy flavor. Has been grown locally in Sunderbyn, Luleå, Sweden since the end of 1800. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
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